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August 5, 2026
SpaceX reported a 92 per cent year-over-year revenue increase to US$7.8 billion during its second quarter of 2026, marking its first earnings release as a publicly traded company. The space…
The Perseids are back! One of the year’s brightest and most popular meteor showers has been ramping up since early July and will sparkle in the skies through the end of August. The shower reaches…
SpaceX reported its second quarter earnings on Tuesday reporting revenue of $7.8 billion – nearly doubling year-over-year. Leadership set a bold target of $100 billion in annual recurring revenue…
On August 5, 2026, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell outlined the company’s Q2 performance and strategic direction, confirming plans to expand Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell…
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded $615 million in Other Transaction Authority contracts for Space Based Airborne Moving Target Indication (SB-AMTI) to Rocket Lab, STR LLC…
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in…
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon have been given the go by mission managers for Thursday’s spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system…
Engineers connect the Orion crew and service modules for the Artemis III mission inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Technicians joined the Orion crew and service modules together on July 30, 2026, inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew module…
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Elon Musk has declared that SpaceX has effectively solved one of Starship’s most persistent engineering challenges: the reliability of its heat shield tiles. During the company’s first-ever Earnings…
NASA is advancing toward Artemis III’s crewed demonstration mission with accelerated, measurable progress across all fronts, outpacing Artemis II integration timelines as teams ready the Orion…
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You might think of rockets as powerful vehicles that blast astronaut crews and robotic missions into space. But what if they could be used to send cargo from one side of Earth to the other in a…
Scientists at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona report they detected a plume from the impact August 5 from that errant SpaceX rocket stage. “We can safely say that we measured a response…
The first observations from NASA's PUNCH mission (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) show it could greatly improve solar storm forecasts directed toward the…
Description This composite of seven images from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows Earth, visible as a small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right…
Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Earth appears as a point of light in the Martian sky, disappearing behind…
The company added 1.7 million net subscribers in the second quarter of 2026, while cumulative revenue for the half-year reached $7,548 million (about…
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have managed to free up power on Voyager 2, extending the time the spacecraft can continue carrying out…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted surprising honeycomb-like shapes in the Red Planet soil while exploring a large valley.
On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Here's why it mattered.
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
The success of Starship's thirteenth flight, on 25 July, marked the start of a new phase for SpaceX. With the next launch, the company will attempt for the first…
It is a stage from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, whose 'encounter' with the lunar surface was expected today
The mood was celebratory at the ribbon-cutting for Muon Space’s San Jose, California, manufacturing facility in June. State, local, United States Space Force and Pentagon representatives lauded the…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- Spain is preparing to become, for a few minutes, one of the world's leading centres for solar observation. A week before the 12 August total eclipse, the…
On Wednesday, 5 August at 3:49 am ET, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 11-13 mission into orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in…
The Mastcam-Z camera recorded a video of the moon Phobos capturing a fascinating solar eclipse on the planet Mars. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has…
Today’s impact of a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage on the Moon may sound dramatic, but it is neither the first human-made object to strike our natural satellite nor the largest.
At 09:42 Italian time on 5 August 2026, about a month and a half after the previous mission, SpaceX placed three more AST SpaceMobile satellites into orbit, BlueBird 11,…
Europe risks becoming dependent on foreign orbital computing infrastructure as U.S. companies and China’s government-led push accelerate the development of space-based data centers, according to the…
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